Polio has returned to Syria after a long absence, and other dangerous diseases are on the increase The World Health Organisation has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio for 14 years in   Syria , sparking renewed alarm at the collapse of health care caused by the country's...

  U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Baghdad Monday on the next leg of a regional tour to build support for talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the foreign ministry said. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Brahimi at the airport, a statement on the...

None of Syria’s chemical weapons sites are under rebel control, the key opposition National Coalition said on Tuesday, according to AFP. The assertion came after the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said one abandoned site was in a rebel-held area and that...

Pressure intensified on Syrian rebels on Monday to permit access to chemical weapons sites in areas under their control, as officials said the rapidly shifting lines in the civil war made it difficult for inspectors to reach some locations and called for all parties to ease the process...